It is midsummer in northeastern Bangladesh. Five men face a dangerous mission. They must conquer the great river with their raft. Their journey will last a month and take them 300 kilometers downstream. Their cargo: 25,000 bamboo logs, which they have to deliver despite endless heat, pouring rain, dangerous rapids, and river pirates who lurk in the dark.

Shaheen Dill-Riaz was a short film maker in Dhaka before he moved to Berlin in 1992 on a scholarship to study art history. He also studied cinematography at the Film University Babelsberg. Besides working as director, cinematographer and producer in Europe and Asia, Dill-Riaz is also a cine-journalist for several magazines.